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Weekend Receipts: Hop’s On Top Again, Your Highness Has A Schwaggy Sixth Place Debut

The Bunny reigned supreme again as Hop grabbed the top spot for a second weekend, but at the expense of Russell Brand’s other comedy, Arthur , which could only muster a distant second place finish. In fact, when final number come rolling in tomorrow, it may be beaten out by Hanna , which notched a very close third place, followed by inspirational stump film Soul Surfer . And poor Your Highness came in at 6th, proving perhaps that a little Danny McBride goes a long way. Your weekend receipts are here.

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Weekend Receipts: Hop’s On Top Again, Your Highness Has A Schwaggy Sixth Place Debut

Weekend Receipts: Hop’s On Top Again, Your Highness Has A Schwaggy Sixth Place Debut

The Bunny reigned supreme again as Hop grabbed the top spot for a second weekend, but at the expense of Russell Brand’s other comedy, Arthur , which could only muster a distant second place finish. In fact, when final number come rolling in tomorrow, it may be beaten out by Hanna , which notched a very close third place, followed by inspirational stump film Soul Surfer . And poor Your Highness came in at 6th, proving perhaps that a little Danny McBride goes a long way. Your weekend receipts are here.

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Friday Box Office: Hop Jumps To Number One Over Time-Jumping Jake Gyllenhaal

Despite it being about as fun as a tracheotomy, the Easter Bunny exposé Hop won the top spot this Friday night, sending the wibbley-wobbly timey-wimey Source Code to second place. If only you could crap candy too, Jake! And right behind dear ol’ Jake was the haunted house antics of Insidious , scoring a close number three. Your Friday box office is here.

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Friday Box Office: Hop Jumps To Number One Over Time-Jumping Jake Gyllenhaal

Help Movieline Caption Amber Heard’s First Playboy Pic

You may have been disappointed by both of Adrianne Palicki’s new Wonder Woman costumes — the one that looked exactly like a sexy Halloween costume and then the one that looked like a slightly-less-sexy Halloween costume — but something tells me that you will not be disappointed by Amber Heard’s get-up in NBC’ s drama pilot The Playboy Club . Especially when you hear that there is a chance she will be taking it off. Captioning pens ready?

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REVIEW: Smart, Sensitive Trust Explores the Awful Human Truths Behind Online Seduction

Trust is the rare film that feels longer than its 106 minutes without having exceeded its narrative limits or strained the viewer’s patience. Patience is one of the few things director David Schwimmer doesn’t test, in fact, over the course of a story that seems to span a lifetime and a few scenes that stop time altogether. An indelibly rendered portrait of what lives behind a “News At 11” headline, Trust explores the various boundaries — at home, online, and within the psyche — sent into flux when a young girl reaches adolescence, and what can happen when the resulting vulnerabilities are exploited.

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Insidious and 8 Other Really Vague One-Word Horror Movie Titles

This week, Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell unveil their latest horror pic , Insidious . But what sort of frights await within, exactly? Is it a little hard to guess, based on the super vague-yet-sinister sounding title? Well, Insidious isn’t the first horror film to go the ambiguous route; common words like “them,” and “scream” previously drew in puzzled moviegoers only to become genre classics. Will “insidious” join the horror movie lexicon as indelibly as these eight other really vague one-word movie titles that have come before?

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Quotes of the Day: On the Evils of Air Conditioning

Cover, Henry Miller’s Air Conditioned Nightmare Air conditioning is not only an environmental problem, it is also a social problem. In the post Air Conditioning and Urbanism, I wrote: We should consider also the insidious effect of central air- how it enables the development of parts of the country previously uninhabitable and which would still be but for the constant cooling, and how it is destroying the street culture of areas already established. H… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Quotes of the Day: On the Evils of Air Conditioning